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1 online resource |
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Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction Sociology and AIDS; AIDS, The Disease; The Sociological Significance of HIV-AIDS; Sociological Perspectives; Part One Social Etiology; Agent, Host, and Environment; Major Social Factors in Infectious Disease; Individual Infection and Epidemics; 1 The Social Epidemiological Perspective: High-risk Groups in the United States; High-risk Groups; Sex, Drugs, and the Behavioral Basis for the Transmission of HIV; Gay Subcultures and the HIV-AIDS Epidemic |
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Drugs and the Drug SubcultureRace, Ethnicity, Class, and HIV-AIDS; Conclusion; 2 The Social Change Perspective: The Origin of HIV; The Nonhuman Origin Hypothesis; Medical Intervention and Patbocenosis; Social Change and the Mutation of a Microbe; Conclusion; 3 The Cross-Cultural Perspective AIDS in Afnca; The Cross-cultural Perspective and Sex; Marriage and Kinship; Sexual Culture; Urbanization, Sexual Relations, and HIV-AIDS; What About Homosexuality?; The Age of HIV and Social Forces; Conclusion; 4 The Social Behavior Perspective Trends in HIV-AIDS and Preventive Behavior |
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The Trend for Total Rates in the United StatesWhy the Doomsday Projections Were Wrong; The Trend for Heterosexuals; The Trend of HIV-AIDS in Africa; Conclusion; Part Two Societal Reactions; Fear of Contagion; Definitions of Disease; 5 The Collective Behavior Perspective Fear of Contagion; Collective Behavior; Collective Behavior and Epidemics; The Black Death; The Cholera Epidemics of the Early Nineteenth Century; The HIV-AIDS Epidemic in the United States; Conclusion; 6 The Social Construction Perspective Moralizing and Scapegoating |
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Disease as Metaphor, Fear of Contagion, and Collective BehaviorThe Black Death and Religion; The Cholera Epidemics and the Class Structure in the Early Nineteenth Century; HIV-AIDS and Deviance; Conclusion; 7 The Sociology of Science Perspective Science, Societal Reactions, and Social Control; The Social Embeddedness of Science and HIV-AIDS; Science, Metaphor, and Social Control; Changes in the Social Construction of Cholera and the Role of Science; Expansion of Scientific Knowledge and Changes in Societal Perception of HIV-AIDS; Changes in Societal Reactions; Conclusion |
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8 The Deviant Behavior Perspective The Sick Role, Personal Responsibility, and Problems of Treatment and PreventionParsons's Social Theory of Illness; Cultural Bias of Parsons's Theory and HIV-AIDS; Personal Responsibility, Deviance, and HIV-AIDS; Deviance as a Deterrent to Treatment; Deviance as a Deterrent to Prevention; Conclusion; Conclusion Sociology and the Eradication and Control of HIV-AIDS; Problems of Eradication and HIV-AIDS; Control Programs and HIV-AIDS; Control of HIV-AIDS in Africa; A Final Note; Appendix; References; About the Book and Author; Index |
| Summary |
This comprehensive introduction to the problem of AIDS lays out the medical facts and social epidemiology of the disease and illuminates the complex social problems this disease poses for the United States and other nations. Each chapter introduces a key sociological approach that clarifies how social scientists understand and explain important social dimensions of the AIDS epidemic. The authors use of historical comparisons with other deadly epidemics sets in relief the social problems presented by AIDS today. AIDS has become the most vexing medical crisis of our time. But the social aspects of the epidemic are just as complex as the biomedical aspects of the disease, sharing sociological characteristics with the Black Death, cholera, and other devastating epidemics of earlier eras. This comprehensive introduction to the problem of AIDS lays out the medical facts and social epidemiology of the disease and illuminates the complex social problems this disease poses for the United States and other nations. Each chapter introduces a key sociological approach that clarifies how social scientists understand and explain important social dimensions of the AIDS epidemic. The authors use of historical comparisons with other deadly epidemics sets in relief the social problems presented by AIDS today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
William A Rushing |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May, 15, 2018) |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
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AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Epidemiology
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AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429496868 |
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0429496869 |
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9780429976490 |
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0429976496 |
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0429965419 |
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9780429965418 |
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9780429987571 |
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0429987579 |
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